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Remains of that excellent minister of Jesus Christ, Mr. Joseph Alleine being a collection…Remaines of that excellent minister of Jesus Christ, Mr. Joseph Alleine being a collection…
Remains of that excellent minister of Jesus Christ, Mr. Joseph Alleine being a collection of sundry directions, sermons, sacrament-speeches, and letters, not heretofore published ...Remaines of that excellent minister of Jesus Christ, Mr. Joseph Alleine being a collection of sundry directions, sermons, sacrament-speeches, and letters, not heretofore published ...
London: printed for Peter Parker, 1674
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
3. God hath loosed your Tongues, when others are dumb and silent. O what mercy is this? Beloved, you could not breath before God your Prayers and Requests with life and fervour as you do, unless God did unlose your tongues, and open your mouths. Man's lips are locked up, and his tongue tied up, that he cannot utter himself be•ore God; or at least, not with that fervency that others can: O bless the Lord that he hath loosed your tongues.
3. God hath loosed your Tongues, when others are dumb and silent. O what mercy is this? Beloved, you could not breath before God your Prayers and Requests with lise and fervour as you do, unless God did unlose your tongues, and open your mouths. Man's lips are locked up, and his tongue tyed up, that he cannot utter himself be•ore God; or at least, not with that fervency that others can: O bless the Lord that he hath loosed your tongues.
4. He hath given you Appetites, when others relish not the things of God. Dost thou find any hungrings and thirstings after Christ, and his Righteousness? Is this that which thou dost pant after, to be made more conformable to the Lord? Dost thou pant after Christ, as others pant after the world? O bless God that hath put such a difference between thee and others. When others relish not the things of God, they ar• sapless things; yea, many times they seem burdensome things to them, God hath given thee such an appetite, that thou findest a relish in them, that nothing goes down so sweetly, as the service of God.
4. He hath given you Appetites, when others rellish not the things of God. Dost thou find any hungrings and thirstings after Christ, and his Righteousness? Is this that which thou dost pant after, to be made more conformable to the Lord? Dost thou pant after Christ, as others pant after the world? O bless God that hath put such a difference between thee and others. When others relish not the things of God, they ar sapless things; yea, many times they seem burdenfome things to them, God hath given thee such an appetite, that thou findest a relish in them, that nothing goes down so sweetly, as the service of God.